[07] PARTIALLY WRIGHT
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Russel Wright Design Center
Garrison, New York · Fall 2016
PROJECT TYPE Graduate Design Studio · Cultural Architecture · Museum Design · Architectural Representation · Fall 2016
INSTITUTION University of Pennsylvania
ROLE Graduate Architecture Student
COURSE ARCH-501 · Graduate Architecture Studio I
PROGRAM Cultural Architecture · Museum Design · Architectural Representation
CRITIC Miroslava Brooks
Garrison, New York · Fall 2016
PROJECT TYPE Graduate Design Studio · Cultural Architecture · Museum Design · Architectural Representation · Fall 2016
INSTITUTION University of Pennsylvania
ROLE Graduate Architecture Student
COURSE ARCH-501 · Graduate Architecture Studio I
PROGRAM Cultural Architecture · Museum Design · Architectural Representation
CRITIC Miroslava Brooks
PROJECT OVERVIEW
Partially Wright proposes a visitor and gallery facility for the Russel Wright Design Center at Manitoga, exploring ambiguity as a means of shaping architectural experience. Drawing from Wright’s relationship between formal and informal design, the project develops spaces that shift between recognizable architectural elements and unfamiliar spatial conditions.
Layered geometries, material transitions, and carefully composed views create moments where boundaries between object, interior, and landscape become deliberately uncertain.
Rather than imitate Manitoga’s existing architecture, the proposal establishes a contemporary counterpoint responsive to its cultural and natural setting. Through spatial sequencing and hybrid representation, the project examines how perception and partial recognition can continually reshape a visitor’s understanding of architecture and place.
Partially Wright proposes a visitor and gallery facility for the Russel Wright Design Center at Manitoga, exploring ambiguity as a means of shaping architectural experience. Drawing from Wright’s relationship between formal and informal design, the project develops spaces that shift between recognizable architectural elements and unfamiliar spatial conditions.
Layered geometries, material transitions, and carefully composed views create moments where boundaries between object, interior, and landscape become deliberately uncertain.
Rather than imitate Manitoga’s existing architecture, the proposal establishes a contemporary counterpoint responsive to its cultural and natural setting. Through spatial sequencing and hybrid representation, the project examines how perception and partial recognition can continually reshape a visitor’s understanding of architecture and place.
FAMILIAR / UNFAMILIAR
Recognition is used as a point of departure rather than an endpoint. Familiar architectural figures are layered, displaced, and recombined until their relationships become uncertain.
As visitors move through the project, the distinction between building, object, interior, and landscape continually shifts. What first appears recognizable is gradually made strange through sequence, framing, material transition, and spatial overlap.
Recognition is used as a point of departure rather than an endpoint. Familiar architectural figures are layered, displaced, and recombined until their relationships become uncertain.
As visitors move through the project, the distinction between building, object, interior, and landscape continually shifts. What first appears recognizable is gradually made strange through sequence, framing, material transition, and spatial overlap.
At Manitoga, familiarity becomes unstable.